1963 Rover P4 95 “Meets The Love Bug”

[ProgRocker]

Hillman Minx?

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

Weather report or advertising your services? 🤔

Blowing again now. Some damage in S. London - scaffolding down. Bet that made a crash.

[lesapandre]

13 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

Hillman Minx?

There is a 30's 'Aero Minx'.

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Still blowing hard here in London. 

Nothing to do with the weather tho?

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, calebaaront said:

bit of a tree on the tracks at Reading 

Which bit, a leaf? 🤣 

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

 

Ooh, that lives near me, have posted a pic of it before. Not the only old'un he has.

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 hours since last update. Hope everything is going well.

[Weird Car]

6 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

4 hours since last update. Hope everything is going well.

I’ve just gotten off the phone with him, all is good bar bad traffic, ETA home is about 10ish

[stuboy]

wonder what his destination was..

[Matty]

9 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

I’ve just gotten off the phone with him, all is good bar bad traffic, ETA home is about 10ish

When's he gonna tell us what it is???? 😄

[High Jetter]

My money was on the Canta, got that wrong!

[Weird Car]

5 minutes ago, Matty said:

When's he gonna tell us what it is???? 😄

Knowing Caleb he’s probably forgotten about this thread 😆

it’ll be worth the wait though I promise 

[EyesWeldedShut]

London, tube? XM from @wesacosa maybe?

[wesacosa]

Just now, EyesWeldedShut said:

London, tube? XM from @wesacosa maybe?

not unless he's brought his own fuel hoses as the ones from my XM are still in my garage 🤣

[calebaaront]

I do apologise, I wanted to get straight in and go pretty much, almost home only another 20 miles left. Was very nice to meet you @Lankytim

[Dyslexic Viking]

Nice. Is this the ex @HMC? or the other? don't remember.

[calebaaront]

2 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Nice. Is this the ex @HMC? or the other? don't remember.

Tis indeed 

[HMC]

Brilliant!

[lesapandre]

13 minutes ago, HMC said:

Brilliant!

All power to you to do this - and a tribute to the engineers of that car who toiled over the basic design in the mid-1940's - to get it right enough to take a car first introduced in 1949 onto the roads in a storm 75 years later - and arrive safely at it's destination. 

🎈🎉🎊🏆♣️

[Peter C]

Well done for buying this beautiful old car.

[Jim Bell]

That looks like a fine adventure and a great prize. 

[calebaaront]

All in all 227 miles. Didn’t miss a single beat. Very happy with it 

[LightBulbFun]

 

Top buyage and collectioning (espically in this weather)  very much  looking forward to seeing more on this one, and I am glad it managed to stay in the fold for if nothing else, the reassurance that its less likely to get robbed of its registration number!

[danthecapriman]

My word, that is a lovely old rig!👍

I suppose it’s been a good test of its waterproof abilities with the amount of pissing rain this evening.

[Lankytim]

Great meeting you today and congrats on getting back, I never doubted the old crock for a minute!

[danthecapriman]

I really do need to get myself one of these some day. 

[calebaaront]

Took the P4 to shops this morning, already in love. 

[beko1987]

Watching @Zelandeth pootle around in his before they seem excellent cars to drive locally! Nice buy. 

[LightBulbFun]

58 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Watching @Zelandeth pootle around in his before they seem excellent cars to drive locally! Nice buy. 

when Zel had his up for sale, I was super tempted for that reason, if someone did a Rover P4 with power steering and an Automatic slushbox, it would be probably be up there in one of the best waft-mobiles

[beko1987]

9 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

when Zel had his up for sale, I was super tempted for that reason, if someone did a Rover P4 with power steering and an Automatic slushbox, it would be probably be up there in one of the best waft-mobiles

It was how easily it started then how silently it ran that got me! Would be ideal for you! Tax/ulez/mot exempt and still very narrow. Remove the back seat and maybe a chair would push in like a London taxi but smaller

[Zelandeth]

What is it with people collecting these in horrendous weather?  I picked mine up in the middle of a horrible bloody storm as well!  

Cracking cars though, hope you enjoy it.

Funny that mine has honestly left far more of an impression on me than the P6 has.  The P6 is a cracking car, don't get me wrong...The fact it's so modern-like in many ways I think is just testament to how way ahead of their time they were.  It just doesn't have the same wow factor for me that the P4 had.  Definitely one of the cars that I've bought more or less on a whim that I've enjoyed the most.  I'd say it's pretty much definite that at some point I'll end up with another one.  Howling past people in the outside lane on the M1 and watching their complete befuddlement I think was probably the best just for the sheer cognitive dissonance that it could cause for other motorists.

Something I did notice though when I was driving mine though was that *nobody* messed with you.  Even the taxi drives would stop and let you through between parked cars and stuff like that.  The fact that it was scruffy as heck yet still looked like it would drive through their plastic SUVs like they were tissue paper may have had something to do with it...

We're going to need to form an Autoshite P4 register soon at this rate!